This early production Colt Model 1860 Army has the highly desirable early full fluted cylinder. While over 200,000 Colt Model 1860 Army Model revolvers were manufactured, only around 4,000 were manufactured with fluted cylinders, making this variation especially desirable. Some of these distinctive Colts were shipped to the South before and at the very beginning of the Civil War. Of the small amount of these fluted cylinder revolvers made, most of them were no doubt heavily used during the war, making surviving examples particularly scarce. This example features the one-line Hartford barrel address, faint "COLTS/PATENT" frame marking, frame cut for a shoulder stock, fluted cylinder, and all matching visible serial numbers marked on the barrel, frame, trigger guard, butt, wedge, cylinder pin, cylinder and correctly handwritten in black ink inside the grip mortise. Provenance: The Brig & Louise Pemberton Collection